<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <body> <div dir="auto"> <div dir="auto">I tried export_distributor, but I found it to be too slow for my needs. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I need to export ALL my repos, and I have about 800. Exporting causes many RPMs to be replicated, so the storage requirements explode for me.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I gave up using export_distributor. Instead, I now run pulp inside a virtual machine and I copy the whole virtual machine. This method avoids RPM replication, and has proved to be much faster than <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">export_distributor.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;">Ben Stanley. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div dir='auto'><br></div> <div id="aqm-original" style="color: black;">  <div class="aqm-original-body"> <div style="color: black;"> <p style="color: black; font-size: 10pt; font-family: sans-serif; margin: 8pt 0;">On 10 June 2019 10:57:37 pm Tatiana Tereshchenko <ttereshc@redhat.com> wrote:</p> <blockquote type="cite" class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 0.75ex; border-left: 1px solid #808080; padding-left: 0.75ex;"> <div dir="ltr"><div>As you probably know, we are in the process of designing a tool which will provide a way to migrate from Pulp 2 to Pulp 3, so we will ask you for feedback every now and then.</div><div><br></div><div>Export distributor [0] is used for generating ISO images which can contain one or more RPM or File (ISO plugin in Pulp 2 terms) repositories in it. This distributor is also used to export a repository into a specific directory on a filesystem.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Please, let us know if you use export_distributor:</div><div>0. Do you use Pulp directly or through Katello? This thread is more relevant for those who use Pulp directly.<br></div><div>1. What is the scale? E.g. "I use it for 10% of all my repositories, ~50 repositories." <br></div><div>2. Do you export into an ISO or to a directory? Or both?<br></div><div>3. Is it important that export_distributors and their configuration are migrated to Pulp3? E.g. "It would be nice-to-have, not critical, I export very few repositories."</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Tanya</div><div><br></div><div></div><div>[0] <a href="https://docs.pulpproject.org/plugins/pulp_rpm/tech-reference/export-distributor.html">https://docs.pulpproject.org/plugins/pulp_rpm/tech-reference/export-distributor.html</a></div></div> <div>_______________________________________________</div> <div>Pulp-list mailing list</div> <div><a class="aqm-autolink aqm-autowrap" href="mailto:Pulp-list%40redhat.com">Pulp-list@redhat.com</a></div> <div><a class="aqm-autolink aqm-autowrap" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pulp-list</a></div> </blockquote> </div> </div>  </div><div dir="auto"><br></div> </div></body> </html>